parallel-package
Support for Parallel Computation
Support for parallel computation, including random-number generation.
- Keywords
- package
Details
This package is under development: a first version was released with R 2.14.0.
There is support for multiple RNG streams with the
"L'Ecuyer-CMRG" RNG: see nextRNGStream.
It contains functionality derived from and pretty much equivalent to
that contained in packages \href{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=#1}{\pkg{#1}}multicoremulticore (with some low-level
functions renamed and not exported) and \href{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=#1}{\pkg{#1}}snowsnow (for socket
clusters only, but MPI and NWS clusters generated by
\href{https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=#1}{\pkg{#1}}snowsnow are also supported). This package also provides
makeForkCluster.
For a complete list of exported functions, use
library(help = "parallel").
See Also
Parallel computation involves launching worker processes: functions
psnice and pskill in package tools
provide means to manage such processes.